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“God’s purpose for His creation gets twisted when Satan enters the garden.”
NOTE: Everything that God has done up to this point is good.
After every creative work it is deemed good by God.
The garden of Eden was a place of beauty, a place of amazing bounty, and a place that was unmarred by the crippling and polluting effects of sin.
It was the birth place of marital intimacy between a husband and his wife and intimacy with the creator of the universe.
Everything say’s that God, was “good.”
He is good in his essence, good in his purpose, and good in his glory.
“If Genesis 1-2 was paradise then Genesis 3 is the loss of paradise.”
PROBLEM WITH THE TEXT
Adam and Eve already had an understanding of “good and evil” Eve was fully aware that she should not eat of the tree before she took the fruit.
Adam and Eve are already made in the image of God so why would their eyes be opened and to be like God?
What kind of dad sets up their kids for failure.
“You can do whatever you want but don’t touch this tree.”
Adam called Eve woman at the beginning of creation then after the fall he gives her the name Eve.
Of all the things that could have happened after eating of the tree is the realization that they are naked.
God’s first question to man was “who told you that you were naked?”
NOTE: Hebrew Naked (Arowm) Nakedness (Erowm) Crafty (Eruwm) all of these are derived from the same root base they are almost indistinguishable.
El-SHADDAI: Rabbis have looked at the consonants of the word and have purposed that it means “The God who knows when to say enough.” “The God who has the power to achieve his purposes.”
BIG IDEA: We need to know when to say Enough.
1. DISTORTING GOD’S WORD LEADS TO DOUBT AND CONFUSION
Satan’s strategy is to get us to doubt the reliability of God and His word.
When he first put him in the midst of the garden.
Whether the man actually relayed to Eve exactly what God had said and Eve changed the narrative or the man gave Eve a false narrative we do not know.
God had instructed Adam not to eat of the tree of the knowledge good and evil, because on the day he ate of this one special tree he would surely die.
First, Eve put’s the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden, and she adds that she cannot even touch the tree or she will die.
Notice that the snake is walking talking and reasoning.
(notice the emphasis)
“Did God really say that you must not eat from any tree in the garden”
Illustration
Landon comes to me and tells me......................
“Joe came to me yesterday and said that he really wants to become a vegan”
Did Joe really say that?
Satan’s strategy is to get us to doubt the Goodness of God and His word.
Even though Eve got the gist or main idea of the command, Satan used it to his advantage by asking the question, “Did God actually say, ‘you shall not eat of any tree in the garden.’”
“Are you sure you heard God right?”
Notice how Satan is baiting Eve.
The goal of Satan is to get humanity to doubt God and his goodness.
A Character Assassination on God
Of course God had not forbidden Adam and Eve to eat of the other trees in the garden.
Adam and Eve were free to eat from all of the other trees in the garden.
Satan takes one small restriction placed on us for our good and gets us to doubt the character of God.
God is always trying to spoil your fun.
What is the matter with such a small sin?
Doesn’t God want me to be happy and to enjoy life?
2. Distorting God’s word leads to denying the Judgment of God.
Satan’s strategy is to get us to sooth our own conscience
The devil said to Eve in 3:4 Sin isn’t that big a deal, the devil tells us.
“OK, god said don’t eat from the tree.
But come on now, do you really think that he is going to kill you over such a small thing.
God ahead, you know he will forgive you.
We know that God hates sin and the devil has been and always will be a liar, for “the wages of sin is death.”
(Rom.
6:23)
Most people in culture today do not want to think about the Judgement of God on the world.
The problem is not so much the prospect of judgement as the prospect that some people will receive a verdict of eternal condemnation.
The question most people wrestle with is how can the idea of eternal punishment be reconciled with the love of God.
How can people be happy in heaven if they know that some are imprisoned in hell?
Why should God reject as worthless people those who have lived good lives?
Would it not be a defeat for God if some human beings fail ultimately to find a place in his kingdom?
Would it not be unfair of God to condemn people who have not had adequate opportunities to understand and respond to Christ.
Before you try and wrap your head around the problem of judgement let’s consider what it would be like if there were not judgement.
In the Ancient Near East they wonder how God can be just when the righteous suffered at the hands of the wicked.
Job and Ecclesiastes wrestle with this same problem.
UNDERSTANDING GODS JUDGMENT ON HIS CREATION
1) By the choices we make and the way we respond to Christ we bring judgment on ourselves.
There is a crucial factor to judgement in the New Testament’s description of judgement which men bring on themselves in the present.
It is not final.
This Godlessness is experienced so long as people refuse to repent and enter the kingdom of God.
Note these are the choices we make, by the way we respond when confronted with his gospel, we bring judgement on ourselves.
2) We must all be judged.
All people will be judged.
He is coming to judge the living and the dead.
When Christ comes finally to make all things new he is bringing with Him the just and righteous judgement on men’s lives.
Is God’s judgement fair.
In many peoples minds, fairness is everyone receiving exactly what he or she things they deserve.
Of God were completely “fair”, by this definition, we would all spend eternity in hell paying for our sin, which is exactly what we deserve.
We have ll sinned against God and are therefore worthy of eternal death.
The Grace of God is that He does not give us what we deserve which is death.
He could have killed Adam and Eve right there and then, however, he showed them grace.
The synonym used for fair in the Bible is Just, and yes God is unequivocally just.
3. Distorting God’s word leads to Beautifying sin.
Satan’s strategy is to get us to see sin as freeing not enslaving.
“God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil,” Satan said that the forbidden fruit is actually the missing element of truth.
Satan was actually convincing Eve that sin would actually enable liberation and self-actualization.
Satan is still telling the same lies today: “Go ahead and separate from your wife.
You will finally be free.
Go ahead and take out your frustrations, you will feel much better.
God ahead and vent your anger towards God.”
All lies.
FRUIT: Notice that the first sin begins with the forbidden fruit then God turns the narrative to give us the fruit of the spirit.
What is the last fruit mentioned in Galatians 5? Self-Control the very thing that separates us from the rest of God’s creation.
Satan’s strategy is to get us to act like animals not images of God.
Desire is the defining marker of the story.
Satan’s lie to Eve tells her you are just a beast, you have these desires that need to be acted on in order to be happy.
You will never see a deer pass on food and say, you know I need to shed a few pounds and pass on this meal.
The difference between humanity and the rest of creation is that we have the ability to say Enough.
God’s purpose for me is good enough.
Note: This whole story is what it means to be human.
What does it mean to be made in the image of God?
NOTE: “Where are you” where is this thing, Hebrew word that assumes something should be where you put it.
“God saying Adam and Eve you are not where you are supposed to be.” Adam’s response, well we were naked and afraid, “Who told you that you were naked, this was never a problem before.”
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